Hoyt Avenue North, west from 31st Street, looking forward the Triborough Bridge, 1935.

The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge (formerly the Triborough Bridge) is actually three bridges, a a viaduct, and 14 miles of approach roads connecting Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. Construction began on the bridge in 1929, actually on the day of the stock market crash, October 25th. The construction barely continued after early 1930 due to extreme financial instability. The project was "saved" by Robert Moses in 1932-1933 when he advocated the the state legislature to create the Triborough Bridge Authority to fund, build, and operate the Bridge. He unsurprisingly became the head of the Authority. The bridge officially opened to much fanfare on July 11, 1936.

For the approaches to the East River suspension span, a number of large apartment houses had to be demolished on Hoyt Avenue North (the empty land on the right of the photograph depicts the results of these demolitions).